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SUNDAY in London

If London is the dullest city in Europe
Sunday tho country surrounding it ami tho
river cannot lie called quiet on that day Tho
greater part of the middle class people of
London make it u point to get out of the city
81 some kind Of a i!oic every pleasapt Sun
day during the summer Every place of
anusem"nt in London is closed Sunday, and
extra price is charged at TIE Zoo.ogical gar
denS, and everything made us dismal as 1t is
possible. To the very great number of Lon
don 'irGnk"r,is, however, n concession is
nadc. After church is over i'll the morning
every liquor saloon, or public, as they call
them is open until midnight. So by the time
evening comes about the only persons to be
seen on the streets are either drunk or well
ON the "ay 10 being So This kind of a
crowd naturally drives respectable people to
the suburbs, and the favori;e picnic places
aye M.emAead and Richmond, 10th of
~nicli have good facilities for boating.-Lon-
dom Cor. Chicago Tribune
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attached to McClelan's reorganizel Army of
the Potomac lie commanded what was called
the ka,awl.a division in Reno's Ninth corps.
AT South Mountain Reno was killed and
the full command of the corps devolved on
Cox. Zen. Cox was made major general
after the Atlanta campaign. at the battle of
Franklin. Tenn. lie rode forward with a
drawn s"orl in his hand and rallied his mcu.
He was governor Of Ohio i'll 1866 and United
States secretary of the interior in 1850. He
is at present engaged i'll legal practice i'll Ohio
and is president of the board Of managers Of
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Meantime: whore was Lee:
The war had W, To that time been chiefly
w.;."l il, what wa, regarded as Co..iv,l, r!'c
Territory. s5tonrwal Jackson had iu::: !o.n
ca, ger to change this tactics ,id carry the
w;sr into Union territory. Boil. h" n.tl Lee
had been casting an eye ov,i' M.."vlnlr1
WHY not cross the Potomac into MARYLAND
bv one of Jaclsons famous foot cavalry
m1vch"S, s,lhsist on the country aud threaten
Washington from tie north.
There Was a feeling in the south ,!ia' Mary
land. gcos,al lhic.llv. politically an,, a,~icllv.
b"loH%'oi II TIE Confceraty II" >jatr coli
tnrf many secession syiip1' ili::;,l.,. 1t WAS
believed that til" s.Iit If Le.c and Ia"i:-o.l
al ;'4t STAR anl al's ",lrc within thor lr,-
a., would rou>e all the Con-, .ul.ltr cut M
sla..l ,,!;.t su,,,l-,'el in the li.; t, pt Ike
.ial;-ialni"rs
Gr;ls. Ice and .J;.ri:son resolved to invade
Mar land. Ice i-sjie'i n proclamation 10 the
lcoIpl" ui that state. telling them that II" We
coming among trn 20 III II! III in THROWING,
OF that foreign YOKE which Ind inflicted. such
wrongs and outrages upon the citizens Of a
commonwealth allied to the states of the
south by III" strongest ties.
Col D,aClN., johnson, a Confederate Mary
land. WIS authorized to get recruits for the
Sritl III ;ii!t Ill !!l> latlNt Sti't' llt lltti
hi, fellow citizens to join III" Confederate
rani;> I'VE have arms for vo,i, lie said.
"L"t eacll man provide himself with a stout
pair of shoes. q good blanket and a tin cup.
Jaaksons men have 10 baggage"
Lee only waited for D. H. Hills brigadcs
from Richmond to join him. thus increasing
his battle worn and storm beaten army some
wil;.: then. September ?, he pushed on to-
wards the Potomac and the north. Jackson
went first. sweeping swiftly forward. He
forlc'l the river at Point of Rocks, thirty
miles below Harpcr's Ferry, and raised the
Confederate flag i'll Maryland.
When jackson reached midstream crossing
the Potomac, it reused all the suppressed en-
thIsasm of his nature. He paused IL mo-
meiit, gaz..1l across to the northern shore and
waved Iii, hat His soldiers caught the move
ncnt; cheer OH cheer rent the air, the bands
struck up Maryland My Maryland and
ten thousand voices caught the refrain. SO
the Confederate army entered Maryland.
Lee followed Immediately lrhnd Jari;Son.
The Conf-lerate army amounted to about
10000 men i'll all. They advanced swiftly on
the town of Frederick, Nd, reaching and
taking possession of it September g.
''Thc Lord bless Your ragged, dirty SOULS"
said Jealous southern woman to the ad-
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CRY .
vicinity of Sharpsburg, and over these Nc
Clcllan's fighting men passed. Hooker
began the battle gallantly at dawn ON
tho 18th, attacking Jacksons command
on tho Confederate left. Gen. I.awton
received the first shock lockers men
carried all before them at first, throw
ins tho Confederate left into confusion.
The Fc'lcrnls rent the mir with cheers. Hook
er sent TO Mansfield for support and pressed
on. Cen Mansfield responded Immediately,
and was bringing his corps into action when
he fell. mortally wounded. AT o o'clock
Hooker thought the battle of An,ietam
was won. 1t was his understanding that
the action was to be general. that
while he attacked tho Confederate left, the
Federal center and left We're to he moved
against tho enemy at the same moment. lIc
had driven back Lawton's division. As far
rs was visible Contcderates were rptrrutnr.
AS he was preparing his batteries tn sweep
their turned ranks shot struck him md
lie was severely wounded. They carried him
off TIL" field to McClellan's Headquarters. and
Sumner took command. But the Confucr-
ates had not been defeated. No general ac.
tion was being fought. Hill. 1Ioo, and Stu.
nrt fastened to the relief of Jackson, and in
turn routed utterly lloolcr's corps, now de-
privcd of their commander. But Summers;
corps took its place quickly, and tho Federal
corps of French nml Richardson moved on
tho Confclcratcs. Gen. Richardson met his
death here. Lee ut once ordered up every
man that could DO drawn from the Contcdcr.
ate right, leaving only a,4on men there
These were commanded by ID. II. JONES' OPP
posed to them was the Federal left, con,pris-
ing ll,0o0 men, under Burnside. His CONF
mand had been divided for some unknown
reason, aud Ii" had been exchanged from the
extreme right, where he belonged To the
left His Ninth corps under Cox was the cx-
trcmc left; his First corps, under Hooker,
was the extreme right. Hc himself remained
with the left.
Sedgwick's division of Summers corps re-
placed Hooker on the extreme Federal right.
The fight went on hotly. McLaws and
Walker, recently from I1arpcr's Ferry, went
into action on the Confederate left. SeGg
wick was wounded, but continued in com.
mand. Presently he was wounded again anil
was forced to leave the fell. Gen. o. o.
Howard took command in his place. The
Confederate general, X. III. Anderson, was
ais" wounded in that fierce fight, and his
place was taken by Con. Roger y. Pryor.
AT noon that September II Gen. Franklin
had come up from Crampton'i Valley with
$4,000 mon. They were thrown into action
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when the fighting "fS''' Hi' "A''O''''
began, hut when the war note sounded the
old military instinct stirred within them, the
old military habit dominated them again,
and they hastenetl to tender their services for
the contest
Gen. Richardson was in both the Seminole
and Mexican wars, and in all the hardest
fighting of the Army of the Potomac up to
his death. He lad only been appointed
major general July 4, 1869. He was actively
engaged at South Mountain three days be-
fore receiving the mortal wound at Antietam.
He did not :iie at once, but fingered i'll n suf-
fering state at Frys house, McCelan's head.
quarters: whittier he was carried from the
field. He died Nov g
Brig Gen. George B. Andersons death
caused profound regret on the Confederate
side. He was yet a young man. He was on
the Confederate center, and was mortally
wounded shortly after the fatal shot struck
Gen. Richardson OH the Union side.
Tho bri"ale CT Gen. Rcyer A. PRYOR. who
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vance.
The march had been SO rapid that thou
sands dropped by the way and only G0,OOO
entered Frederick. If there had been any,
thing triumphant or spectacular in their ap-
pearance, had they come with waving bar
ners and snow white plumes and shining new
uniforms, they would have obtained far more
recruits for the southern army. The instinct
for tue dramatic, the poetic md the pictur-
esquc, ever alive i'll the southern breast,
would not have been appealed to in vain.
But Lees men, bravo and tried soldiers
though they were, We're dirty and ragged and
hungry Many of them had no shoes, and
marched with bleeding feet and travel stained
garments. 1t was not very poetic, neither
inviting. The recruits Lee and jackson had
fonlly hoped for We're rot obtained in any
great numbers When it came to
the scratch, Maryland seemed more Fed
eral than Confederate, yet it was ut
Frederick that the incident which gave
rise to Whittier's poem of Barbara Friet-
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potOlnac,

1t viii he seen from the map that the An
tie'am is u creek which flows nearly due south
through Maryland to the westward of and
nearly parallel with the South Mountain.
Across Antietam creek, and on its west side,
is the village of Sharpsburg. Along Ante
tam creek and in and around Sharpsburs the
bloody battle Of the 18th of September was
fought between the forces of Lee and Nc.
Celan.
Til" intervening days had given Lees army
time to collect itself Harpcr's Ferry sur
rendered to jackson OH the 18th, and imme-
diatelv he and Gen. Walker, with nll their
forces, set ont by swift marches to join Lee
and relieve him of his peril They crossed
the Potomac to the Maryland side at the
Shcpherdstown ford, from which road led
directly to Slarpsburg.
The Confcleratcs name the battle Of the
18th for the town, Sharpsburg; the Fcderals
name it Antietam, after the creek. Lees
fighting force at Sbarpsburg was only 5000
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GI.N. ROGER A. PRYOR. Not till $, clock
p. ILL., was the Ninth corps ready for action.
BY ll."t time the fighting on the Federal left
was OVER.
There was, however, more or less fighting
till dark. The battle OF Antietam was fought
in woods and corn fields. The llooiest por-
ton was in the vicinity Of peaceful small
white bunker church, II little north of
Sllarpsburg. Antictam, too, like Waterloo,
had its terrible sunlicn road This WAS u road
tween that aud Antietam creek When the
fighting ceased that bloody day tho s,nkcn
road was piled even full with the bodies Of
Confederate dead
Antictam was drawn battle The Fed
cral forces were not pushed into action vgor-
ously
Mcclellan had s7,1G4 men in the batte
Lee had about 10000. The Union loss was
II ,426, the Confederate loss 1O.0OO In tho
whole campaign in Maryland the Federal
army lost l4,3OO, the Confedcratcs l2,5OO.
There was fearful loss Of officers OH both
side, nt Antietam. There was no lighting on
the 18th If September. Mcclellan was pre-
parins 10 renew it on the 10Th. But the night
Of tic 18th the worn and exhausted Confed-
crates fol,le'l their tents and stole away down
the Sh"phcrdstown rond and across the poto-
mac, five miles into Virginia.
The invasion of Maryland was ended.
Among officers Ellled at Antietam wcre
some of the bravest and best on both s'!rs.
Maj. Gen. Israel H. Richardson was one
whose death was greatly lamentrd lie was
Nermonter by birth, strong, cool and cour
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LuTOlnn CEttlnl)-
toms Gap sat daybreak next morning" He
was twelve miles away. If the march lad
been made that night the fate of battle might
have been changed. Franklin woul,, have
passed Cramptons Gap without opposition,
and thus been safe between the two parts Of
Lees army on the north and south. As it
was, he reached the Gap about noon of the
l4th. The Confederates were fully apprised
of his movements by that time and McLaws
had sent Gen. Cobb with three brigadcs to
meet him. There was bloody fighting for
three hours. Franklin and his men defeated
Cobb, gained the crest of the Gap and passed
beyond and westward down into Pleasant
valley, between South mountain and Elk
mountain.
Gen. Lafayette McLaws rendered efficient
aid to the Confederates throughout the whole
Maryland campaign, beginning at the siege
Of Harper's Ferry. He also distinguished
himself at Fredericksburg and Afterwards at
Gettysburg. Gen. McLaws was a Georgian
and gra ll.ate Of West Point i'll lSl3 lie
served in tho Mexican war. His active fight
ing life continued through the whole OF tho
Lee in 1865.
In what may be called the three Gap fishts
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"And say, youn-. man, Ii" continued. III
you ever go travelling, Ike me- nyoii s,.am-
ships. | vent ;,S Il s,p"a"ay IL" TINE. and
days out at sea wa, discovered. HE cap
tain SAID tune: 'NoHnS man, You'll lave to
go 20 work. He sci m "a rap!!g OF paint
for min, days. At HE .!rI "t that time We
reached port, am, instead oi bcin. allowed to
land '"i.> l!hc"d III irons ami k'l,t There ,ln-
I'll we i";' wh"n was liberated and SIT to
work again all Tn. way 10 New Nnrk. where
they allo"vi inc 10 80. I never went To sea
again. Railroad, IN" good enough for me-
San Francisco Chronicle
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y case of poisoning hy nutmeg is recorded
III The British Medical Journal, i'll which one
nutmeg had been eaten by patient as Il cure
for diaii An.a Ii caused him To become
gi,!,iy, stupid aud very drow>y all next day
The narcotic properties of these seeds and OF
others OF the same natural order 10 not ap-
pear to be generally known, and seem worthy
of tigation.-Scientij American.
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and to write his
memoirs of them.
He was born i'll
South Carolina in
l>..l. graduated at
West Point in lSi22,
and served in the
Mexican war. AZ
ter that he resigned
and bec:lE" Il pro-
f"ssor of naihe-
MATES. " hen the
civil war lr-am h"
WAS p"i:i"ip;'l"f t!:"
military institute
at 'i.ar!o;tc, N. G.
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SOUTH MOUNTAIN,

Sept. II occurred the battle which is Mt tho
north called &"u,h Mountain, but in the
south known as Bnonshoro. When tho Com
f"lrrntcs marched out OF Frederick, Gen. II.
II. Hill had been left us n rear guard with
the reserve artillery and supply trains at tho
village of Boullsbcro.
Gen. David Harvey Hill is one of the sol
dirrs of that stirring time who has lived to
fight his bnttlcs DER ngnin in Remembrance
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reached the battle
field when he was
killed. The Con-
fedcrate Gen. Hill
says n shot from
the 'Twenty-third
North Carolina
did it. OF Gen.
Reno little is
known, now twen-
ty-fve years after
his death. He was
a gallant soldier
and fell on the
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England May
flower stock. He
studied law md
practiced his pro-
fession in Ohio till
the outbreak of the
war, with an inter-
mission Us state
senator. He joined
tho Union nriny
and shortly became
Il brigalier general.
He did famous SER
vice in West Nir-
oipio After lainv
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chic" occurred.
We have the au-
thority of the his
torian Losing that
there really was a
Barbara Frietchie,
and that she died in
1854. She is said
to le buried ut
Frederick. She
lived ina quaint old
house near the
bridge at Fretler-
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1t almost seems as though good .ervic.lle
paper can he ni''le from every Kind of vege-
cable fibcr. Grasses AND WOODS III all sorts
and even peat, have been brought into rcui!i
sition, while one Of tin latest introduction. is
crushed bamboo, which has been used wi,h
very satisfactory resultS.-Frunk Le>iie's.
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the Cincinnati university. He is man Of
commanding presence and distinguished legal
and literary ability. He has written several
books and pamphlets OH war history, one vol
unle being devoted to the Atlanta campaign.
Maj. Gen. Reno, the Ninth corps conf
manlcr, came up to the scene of the fighting
late in the afternoon. and had scarcely
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Lieut.. Nol. ha Is
name nttrrwar,i be-
came more familiar
to his coun,r,vnrn.
The place Of Gar
lands Confederate
brigade WAS taken
half an hour nftcr-
wards l'y that of
Gen. Geo. B. An
,lcron. 1t in turn
was rrpuls@1 by
Cox, who then fell
back from his nd
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hold the place
longer tllan Sept.
ID without re-en-
forcrnlcnts. The
slow marching OF
the Army of tho
Potomac prevented
these from reach
ing him. Gen.
= White was one Of
the officers COM
, ncnlcd by the
Washington au-
c
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MARYLAND, NY MARYLA LANnl

The dcsp"t'. heel is on thy si,u,p.
3iaiNiand. my Mary and!
His touch i. "n tiny temple door,
MARYLAND, my Maryland.
.tvcllgr tli" patriotic gore.
That ilcck"' til" streets of Baltimore
And be the La,tlt queen of vorc,
Maryland. my Maryland!
hear the distant thunder hum.
Maryland, my Maryland.
The Old Lines buslr. fife and drum,
Maryland, my Maryland.
~" Is NOT 4. al nor deaf. nor lumb;
lilriti!. $ ir sptiit!s the northern scum;
Sc breat!rs. She burns. slc'l COM. slr.ll come
Maryland, my Maryland,
So the devoted southern poet, James r.
Randall, had sung some months before, and
the song was on every Confederate tongue
Septcmber, 1852
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ageols. He was
born in 1910 and
was graduated
from West Point
in 1871. 1t is nota-
ble that the gen
erals in the civil
war were almost
without exception
West Point gra'lu-
ates. Many of them.
had resigned from
the service and
were in civil life
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tlngellcy that Nc
Clellan's s army
should seek to pass
it. The road
through Cranlp-
toms Gap led west
ward directly to
the Potomac river
at the town Of
Willianisport, Md.
On the evening
of Sept. l3 Gen.
w. B. Franklin
had been ordered
to move his CORDS
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a Difference ia. Salaries.

Gen. Wol>elvy receives M annual salary Of
Sl3,;np for holding the post of adiutant gem
eral OF the British army, willie Field Marshal
Won Moit!,. whose duties liz the German
army are nearly the same, receives only
5000 Til" French adjutant general is paid
$4,UUO-Chicago Times.
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i'll the center.
On the Federal
left Burnside had
been ordered to
cross II bridge over
tho Antictunl with
his Ninth corps.
There was no delay
: in executing til" or
i der. 'rliclh'i,lgc was
| at length carried by
! assault with the loss
nf 500 Union sol
,lierS. 1t has ever
since been called
"Blll'llsidr bl.i lyc u
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Con. McClellan's
own headquarters
were on the east
side of Antirtaln
creek, i'll tho rear
of Lis army. Dur
ing the night Of
September lG,
Con. Nlansf Ids
corps also crossed
, tho Antictaln and
: carnped Il mile in
Hookcr's rear.
There We're four
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posted at Burnside
bridge, to guard 1t
from the approach
Of the Ninth corps.
His position WAS a
very favorable one,
and from it his sol
diers moved down
Burnside's men till
: 500 of them fell Mt
that fatal bridge.
Toonnbs was n
Georgian, born in
lSlo. He was, how
n,.n,, =.
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hARpER,s EERRx

AT the time Gen Lee ordered Jackson
walker and McLaws to close in upon Har.
per's Ferry and take it. it was held by 0,OOC
troops under Col Dixon $. Miles.
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ANTlETAM, OR sHARpsguRc.

During the night of Sept. IA, after the
fights on South Mountain, the Confederate
commands of Longstreet and d. II. Hill
withdrew to Sharpsburg, thus cdging away
from McClellan's army and nearer the
pnto,nac
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took his division commanders place after tho
latter was wounded. participated in the ter.

took his division commanders place after tho
latter was wounded, participated in the ter.
riblc fighting, Il; tl." s,inkcn road.
The career Of Gen. Roger A. Pryor is a
notable instance Of the changes time has
brought about. "A native of Dinwitl,!ic
county, VA, lie wa, one of the most Jealous
of Confederatcs He went in person to South
Carolina to urge on TIE secession cause to the
point Of wnr. He fought for the Confcdcracv
both iii its armies and in its congress. Once
during the war he was captured by the Fed
erals and imprisoned i'll Fort Lafayette
And now, twenty five years after he fought
the North in the bloody battle of An.ietnm
he finds himself engaged in a peaceful and In
crniive law practice in New York city
When sometimes lie sails down the bay for o
pleasure trip i'll summer, or stcams out OF
New York harbor i'll an iron ship for a longer
journey across the Atlantic. as lie gli,les past
the Narrows, his eyes rest upon the green
ear,hworks of old Fort Lafayette, wlcr. ho
was prisoner nearly a quarter of n century
ago.
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rErrrrnr,Al OFFICERS.

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Secrctary-M. /: M"r"Tm'rk, .i;>mrr'k'
Treasurrr-,, w. !iryn,w,;. !: >,nar' K.
Audi,or--.l j.. Warl. suv f'lS.
Sumrin,,n.i,,,l Of i'.;hi.c la~c';' 'ii"n-Eus"nc
A. Dye. Mcll'tte. ,,..,
--ASsiStant supcrinrn'l"n'-Frank ~ Wilson
Pemhina.
Anornay General G. i. Ts'.:'.''n ,,, F'rE" :; r.,
land. Bismarck. , !, ,,.,.,,r.
Commissioner OF lin'nicfH!'"i T. i : Wv ''
Pierre.
Delegate Ia Con@r>s.o ;: Gi"f'; .a'','"'
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Board of llcnll-t- + IN h'ns' vi w. S''!'r'"'
tcndcnt, Mandan.
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Inisonin- by Nutmeg

NJ idea Of heaven is eating foie gr;,s to the
sound of truinpets.-Sydney Smith.
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Very different was that utter lrreconciablr,
Robert Toombs, who also bore his share th;,
bloody day ut Sharpsburp His Iuir,,1, VIVA
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Oo1. Nl11eS IHl scHU HIbNhI messages both
to l1alecls and Mcclellan that lr ,uuL] not
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-28
NORWOOD TO BE A WITNESS.
The Central Pacific Roads Methods to
be Illustrated.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.-Representative
Norwood, of Georgia, goes over to New
York tomorrow to appear before the Pa
cific Railway Commission as witness to a
transaction which illustrates the methods of
the Central Pacific railway in its dealings
with the government in 1877. Mr.. Norwood
not being then in office rendered certain
legal service to the Southern Pacific rail
way in connection with its fight with the
Texas Pacific His fee, which was 5000,
was duly paid by the Southern Pacific.
Subsequently, in settling its accounts
with the government, the Central
Pacific railway charged that fee
as one of its expenses for that year.
1t was disallowed at the Treasury on the
ground that it was the expenditure of the
Southern Pacific, and not of the Central
Pacific. Representative Norwood will ex-
hibit to the Pacific Railway Commission his
contract with the Southern Pacific under
which he did the work and got the fee re-
ferred to. The Central Pacific had a way
of charging up the expenditures of the
Southern Pacific as they were its own, thus
diminishing the amount of net earnings
from which the 25'per cent for the govern
ment sinking funds was to be drawn.